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Alxander III
Alxander III was a Tzar of the Russian Empire.
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Abolishment of Serdom
Alexander II , father of Alexander III, abolished serfdom to improve the Russian economy. He transformed the system into a Capitalist one. Sadly, life for serfs was almost the same than the begining, life for them didn't improve. -
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Nicholas II
Nicholas II, son of the Tsar Alejndro III, was the last Tsar of Russia. His reign ended with the Russian Revolution . He was arrested and forced to abdicate. He was finally murdered with his family and his servants in Ekaterimburg. -
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Lenin
Lenin biographyHe was a politician , revolutionary, political theorist and Russian communist. He became the principal leader of the Russian Revlution.
In 1922 he was named as the Council of People's Commissars, from this position he became the leader of the USSR.
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Stalin
Iosif Stalin was the second dictator of the USSR. He transformed Russia from a poor country to the 2nd world power in a decade, the USSR was transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial power. -
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Transiberian
It is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It was built from 1891 to 1916. The idea was of Alexander III -
Russo Japanese War
This war was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan. It took place in oriental Russia and the Yellow Sea. Japan entered to the war to protect their rule over Korea and other smaller land. Finally Japan won the war in september 1905. TThis was the first war in which Asia won the Europeans. -
Bloody Sunday
A group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the Tsar Winter Palace in ordr to manifest.
Nicholas' II decided to shoot the manifestants. Finally 200 people were killed. This event later served as a symbol of the oppresion the peasants suffered. -
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The Great War
This war happened because of the tensions built during the Imperialist era between the countries in Europe. In this war new techniques,gas and weapons were use. The Allied powers and the Central Powers were involved. -
Murder of Rasputin
Rasputin was a monk who was part of the Russian nobility.Some nobles and soldiers gathered to kill Rasputin because of the influence he had in the Tzar.
The responsibles of his death were : Vladímir Purishkévich, Demetrio Románov and Félix Yusúpov.
The plan was to poison his food with cyanide,but he only experienced a slight reaction.He finally shoot him,but he didn't die,he run out of the house,they shoot him again and finally die. -
Division of Marxists into two groups
There were 2 ways of thinking : Menshevik and Bolshevik.
The division of ideas led to violence between them, finally the Bolshevik won. -
March (February) revolution
Was the event that led the way to the Soviet Union. Nicholas II abdicated two days later. The Russian Provisional Government started here.It took place from the 8th to the 12th of march of 1917. -
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Provisional Government
This government was set after the February Revolurion. Georgy Lvov and Alexander Kerensky were the ones who ruled -
October Revolution
It was the Bolshevik rule and the end of the Russian Provisional Government. -
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Russian civil war
It was a war between the Rd Army (Communism) and the White Army (Tsars),finally the Red Army won. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
It was a treaty which signed the peace between the beligerants of the Great War. In this treaty Russia renounced to some lands (Finland, Poland, Estonia, Livonia, Courland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Bessarabia) . But it didn´t last much because the 11 of November of 1918 the Allies defeated the Central Powers -
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NEP
New Economic Policy (NEP)was a capitalist economic plan used by Lenin in order to improve the Russian economy. Finally Stalin replaced by his own economic plan. -
URSS
Th Union of Social Sovietic Republics (USSR) was the final result of Marxism and Soialism in Russia. It was a centralized economy ruled by Stalin. It was an important part in the WWII but it finally ended in 1991 -
Trotsky into exile
Trotsky was a politician and a Russian revolutionary. He was one of the key organizers of the October Revolution.
He went to exile to Mexico because he faced political and ideologicaly to Stalin. He lived in Mexico until he was murdered by the KGB.
